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SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

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SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund) , the easternmost of the straits giving entrance to the Baltic See also:Sea from the See also:Cattegat, between the Danish See also:island of See also:Zealand and See also:Sweden. Its extreme length reckoned from the promontory of Kullen to that of Falsterbo, both on the See also:Swedish See also:shore, is 70 M. Its narrowest point is between Helsingor in See also:Denmark and See also:Helsingborg in Sweden, which are 3 M. apart. Its extreme width, 30 m., is towards the See also:south, where Kjoge See also:Bay indents the See also:coast of Zealand. Three islands See also:lie in it—Hven, belonging to Sweden, and Saltholm and Amager (which is separated from Zealand by a narrow channel at See also:Copenhagen), belonging to Denmark. The strait between Amager and Saltholm is called Drogden, and is followed by the larger vessels passing through the Sound. The extreme See also:depth of the Sound is about 14 fathoms. See also:Navigation is open in See also:winter, though three instances are recorded of the Sound being frozen completely over: in 1306, 183o and 1836. From the 15th See also:century Denmark levied " Sound dues " on See also:foreign vessels passing through the strait, the Hanse traders and certain others being exempt. In the 17th century quarrels arose See also:matter between Denmark and the See also:Netherlands and while in See also:modern times the See also:powers found the dues and in 1843 and 1853 protests were made by the representatives of the See also:United States of See also:America, but Denmark based her right on immemorial See also:custom, and adhered to it. In 1856 the matter came up in connexion with the renewal of the treaty of 1826 between the two countries; considerable tension resulted, and the possibility of See also:reprisals by the United States against the Danish possessions in the See also:West Indies was discussed. But the treaty was provisionally extended to the following See also:year, and a See also:conference in Copenhagen, at which most of the affected powers were represented, resulted in the remission of the dues from the 1st of See also:April 1857, Denmark receiving a united See also:compensation of 30,476,325 See also:rix-dollars (equalling about £4,000,000), out of which the amount paid by the See also:British See also:government was £1,125,000.

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annual income accruing to Denmark from the dins during the ten previous years had been about 2,500,000 rix-dollars.

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